Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Prosser tried his $5 bill trick [TIME, April 12] on us at the University of Minnesota Law School last October, but we had the $5 back before the end of the hour. Justice is swift on the frontier...
...only answer is The Little People. Their pranks, usually amusing, have gone too far this time. They must be stopped. Here, certainly, is rewarding work for the Yard cops. Catch the little vandals. The punishment should be swift and sure. Probation would be of little value--severance of connection is too good for them...
...heaviest floods in over 100 years burst over Missouri River banks last June, destroying lives, crops, property, and running up a tremendous bill of more than a quarter of a billion dollars. The floods also brought swift and angry demands from Missouri Valley citizens for relief action by the penny-wise U. S. Congress which had cut river control funds early in 1947. So once again, Congress found itself faced with the perplexing problem of what to do with the Missouri River. The piecemeal sandbag method evidently wasn't working. But although President Truman called for an ambitious program...
...Race-trackese for swift as the wind...
Television's swift growth had caught many advertising men with their charts down. Last week, at the annual convention of the American Association of Advertising Agencies at Virginia Beach, Va., admen took a long look at television and found it still full of the terrors of the unknown...